If you live in New York City and your cape-wearing dealer named Fluffhead was unavailable on New Year’s Eve, it’s a good bet he or she (Fluffhead is a genderless name) was at Madison Square Garden to see Phish play their annual NYE show. It’s an even better bet that Fluffhead was arrested outside of MSG. Via the New York Times:

The arrests began almost as soon as the concertgoers amassed outside Madison Square Garden on Monday evening. Uniformed and plainclothes police officers moved through the crowd, picking off targets and leading them to a police van parked around the corner where they were patted down and loaded in.

At least 228 people were arrested or received summonses at shows on the first three nights of a four-night stand that was to end Tuesday with a New Year’s Eve performance and undoubtedly more arrests. (Via)

Typical po-po, always targeting white people. The Times also reports that undercover officers confiscated “marijuana, hash, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, MDMA or ecstasy, amphetamine and prescription drugs like Oxycodone, OxyContin and Xanax.” They should have taken some CHILL PILLS.

Objectively, Phish does suck. Not sure drugs can amke it better, but they keep trying. And NYPD has to fill up their quota for arresting silly white people somehow. Plus how many bands feature a known child molester? Fuck them.

The Who and, most recently, LostProphets, spring to mind. And Gordon was cleared of all charges, by the way. And the charges weren’t of child molestation. It was actually child endangerment. But again, cleared of all charges.

Most normal adults don’t ahnga round 9 year olds other than their own children, much less take “artistic” photos of them in bathrooms.

Pete Townsend is a complicated case. He didn’t deny possessing the materials but maintained he was researching child molestation and pedophilia having been molested as a child himself. He was working as a book editor at the time. Who knows?

However, you insinuated that the band featured a known child molester and that’s not the case. Again, he was charged with child endangerment and the charges were dropped. He wasn’t convicted of anything at all, much less child molestation.

So, no, he’s not a “known child molester.” But, it’s the Internet so go ahead and make baseless accusations all you’d like. Nice chatting. Take care.

On the one hand, Phish is one of the most obnoxious and annoying bands to ever exist and I hate their fans and hippies in general very very much.

On the other hand, I’m pretty sure I hate cops more and specifically cops doing these bullshit mass drug arrests thing at concerts. The hippies aren’t harming anyone but themselves, just let them fucking have their fun.

so there were 18,000+ people there each night and they make 228 arrests after setting up an effective stop-and-frisk dragnet where they were walking up to people and randomly stopping them. That’s not exactly a huge percentage (0.4% actually) and is pretty much in line (if not below) “normal” concert-going if you include drunk and disorderly arrests and that sort of thing. Nice of the NYT to stop by.